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DARK REPORT Presents “White Paper” Summary Of Laboratory Industry
INTRODUCTION: To celebrate five eventful years of service to the laboratory industry and pathology profession, THE DARK REPORT is pleased to present its first “White Paper” on the laboratory industry. Our goal is help laboratories and their suppliers accurately identify relevant market dynami…
Summary and Overview of Lab Industry
If there is any common theme to the different chapters of this White Paper on the laboratory industry, it is probably this: in the next couple of years, clinical laboratories will continue to have one foot in the past and one foot in the future. Simply put, lab administrators will continue to manag…
Genetics Tidal Wave is Rapidly Approaching
EVERYONE IN THE CLINICAL LAB BUSINESS KNOWS that our business will soon be dominated by genetic and molecular testing technology. However, most lab administrators and pathologists believe that we are several years away from the widespread clinical use of such technology in laboratory testing. In pr…
Premier’s Lab Vendors Hooking Up Via Internet
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory members of Premier will soon be purchasing instruments, reagents, and supplies through medibuy.com’s Internet healthcare e-commerce site. Four major lab industry suppliers are actively working to link with the medibuy.com and Premier Web sites. For Premier, this …
IPO Is Major Strategy For American Med Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Since its acquisition in 1997, American Medical Laboratories’ fast growth was funded by heavy borrowing. Now this Virginia-based lab company needs to raise additional capital so it can restructure its debt and lay a foundation for the next cycle of growth. Its initial publi…
Bill Bonello Sees Opportunities In Diagnostic Services Companies
CEO SUMMARY: With the clinical laboratory industry now enjoying growing interest by professional investors, THE DARK REPORT traveled to New York City to meet with financial analyst William B. Bonello, of U S Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Bonello co-authored a just-released overview of what he ca…
Lab Industry Attracting New Investment Dollars
CEO SUMMARY: Professional investors with access to hundreds of millions of dollars of investment capital are closely scrutinizing the clinical laboratory industry. They are encouraged by the recent financial performance of public laboratory companies. For independent laboratory owners, th…
Lab “Home Brews” Web Solution for Test Results
CEO SUMMARY: Internet-enabled lab test ordering and results reporting may help independent commercial labs and hospital laboratory outreach programs become more competitive against the two blood brothers. In eastern Pennsylvania, Clinical Laboratories, Inc. introduced Web-based lab test r…
“May 8, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There’s another healthcare Ecommerce company starting up. This one’s directed at the clinical laboratory industry. To be called “LabPortal.com,” it’s connected to Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner Inc., Park City Solutions, and American Medical Laboratories. L…
Academic Hospital Lab Raises Competitive Bar
CEO SUMMARY: Few academic center laboratories are as swift-moving as the UMASS Health System Laboratory. In the next 90 days, it will move into a brand new off-site core laboratory. During this same 90 days, it is implementing its first web-based laboratory test ordering and results repor…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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